Cleopatra and her asp

Cleopatra and Marc Antony killed themselves on this day in 30 BC. She used an asp, which is a kind of snake. The date on the death certificate is said to be August 30, but that is doubtful because the month’s namesake Caesar Augustus hadn’t renamed it yet. Cleopatra was 39; Antony was 53. Cleopatra appears twice in A Book of Ages.

Hello I Must Be Going

Animal Crackers opened in New York on August 29, 1930. In the film Groucho Marx sang “Hooray for Captain Spaulding”, "Hello I Must Be Going" and also bragged about shooting an elephant in his pajamas. He was 39. Groucho Marx appears 11 times in A Book of Ages; Karl only appears twice.